The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 139
But you six Simons follow me and be assured of my royal favour.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: follow, assure, favour · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 follow | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 you | appos |
| 4 | Simons | Simon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 assured | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 assured | aux:pass |
| 9 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 follow | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 favour | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 favour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 favour | amod |
| 13 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assured | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | you | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assure | infinitive · passive | you not said here | of my royal favour | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of favour=Topic | ||||
| 3 | favour | my | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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